Fight report & photos

I’m a little late with this, ladies and gentlemen, but that’s the way we bloggers operate — on our own schedule. The boxing card last Friday night at Washington Avenue Armory in Albany was perfectly jolly even if there were no knockouts or even knockdowns, which are what boxing fans traditionally want to see. Not even any blood, at least none that couldn’t be easily swabbed away between rounds. In the much-anticipated rematches, Jaci Trivilino, the tigress from Plattsburgh, came up short against Lindsay Garbatt of Ontario, after fighting to a furious draw their first time out, and Joe Gbolo from Albany gave a curiously passive performance against Rigoberto Miranda of the Bronx, resulting in their second draw. In the main event, rising middleweight Nick Brinson, fighting out of Troy, convincingly outboxed Lester Gonzalez, a short-notice stand-in from San Diego, all three judges scroring every round for him. Also on the card, local favorite Jose Medina got out-jabbed by Andy Mejias of Utica, who ran his record to 14-0, Joe Yerdon of Albany dropped a decision to Tony Brinson of Geneva, and Joe Shell of Troy lost his pro debut to Brandon Williams of Rochester.

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Kinda sorry I missed it! Didn’t realize you had women fighting, as well!
Always enjoy a good boxing match. My dad was an amateur boxer back in the early 40s. Family lore has it my maternal grandmother told him to stop when my mom became pregnant with me in 1943. I’m always surprised that dad didn’t make sure Grandma was really dead when we went to her wake! She was the power behind the throne in my family and if she told dad tostop boxing he’d would’ve stopped boxing! (Family lore also has it that grandma wouldn’t let mom & Aunt Julia go to a Sinatra concert in the 30s because she considered Sinatra too overtly sexy!)

Seriously I hope we have some decent amateur or professional boxing here. Washington Ave Armory used to host it now & then when I was a kid. Dad would go with me and explain things.

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